Very true. If they weren't injured they could be much higher now and have easier opponents in the early rounds.

If they are healthy now, then hopefully they can push on for higher rankings.

Still I find Doubles is a bit different to Singles in that lower seeds do not always mean easier opponents. If my understanding is correct, a high ranking singles player will make the entry list but will have low seeding because his Doubles points are low. Is this correct Allan ?

Still I find Doubles is a bit different to Singles in that lower seeds do not always mean easier opponents. If my understanding is correct, a high ranking singles player will make the entry list but will have low seeding because his Doubles points are low. Is this correct Allan ?

Yeah, basically. Singles guys can use single ranking to get in but seeding is purely on doubles ranking.

New career highs for Pauffley (shoots up to #564 - that should get him seeded in the odd Futures) and Smethurst climbs to #331. Tom Burn also up to #570, finally beating his old CH which he equalled last week. Golding will climb to a new CH next week as well.

Golding into the SFs for the second week running, and will face the guy who beat him in last week's final. A minimum of 4 more ranking points should see him rise into the top 430 on around 87/88 ranking points. Roughly 100 would see him inside the top 400. He has accumulated 80 ranking points from 2012 so far, so another 20 (or two more Futures finals after this week) would see him into the top 400.

Couple of GB futures coming up next couple of weeks. Glasgow next week, which is a $15,000 event. Goodall, Baker and Evans are all down to play.

Golding into the SFs for the second week running, and will face the guy who beat him in last week's final. A minimum of 4 more ranking points should see him rise into the top 430 on around 87/88 ranking points. Roughly 100 would see him inside the top 400. He has accumulated 80 ranking points from 2012 so far, so another 20 (or two more Futures finals after this week) would see him into the top 400.

Josh Milton has just reached his 3rd Futures final in the space of 6 weeks. He beat Carsten Ball (who was ranked 108 a few years ago) in the semis 1&3 after Ball had beat the top seed the previous round 1&2.

Josh has only lost 20 games in the tournament so far and plays Austin Krajicek in the final (who has only lost 24 games up to the final, but did loose a set, and beat Smethurst 2&1 in the quarters.)

Strong British line up at this week's GB Futures at Scotstoun in Glasgow - 6 of the 8 seeds including Goodall, Baker and Evans. (Bloomfield, Alex Ward and Pauffley being the other seeds.)

Ashley Hewitt had only won a single ranking point this year before this week and he's gone and beat the Lithuanian 5th seed and top seed Goodall both in straight sets! Evans was beaten by Pauffley in the quarters also in straight sets.